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current account switching service direct debit nightmare

Miss_Teabag · 2008-10-29 22:27:29

Hopefully my bad experience will help other moneysavers avoid the same prediciment! I have recently switched current accounts from HSBC to First Direct. I used their switching service, which got the details of all my Direct Debits from HSBC and provided the companies with my new First Direct account details. This worked…

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opinions4u Posts: 19,411 Forumite

1 November 2008 at 2:50PM

BarclaysManager wrote: »

Huh? This has always been the case with account switching; we can't tell the people sending you money to change, you need to do that bit..

I think you have identified a weakness of the Barclays switching system there.

Other organisations manage to arrange this with an appropriate signature from their new customer.

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